BREAKING PATTERNS

Intro to Backbends - Playing With Fire Learning to use pain as a pivot point into freedom emotionally and physically. Breaking Patterns of Suffering - Opening up to Freedom - How are we using our power? To create more suffering? OR are we using it in really nourishing ways? Ways that are about a life of meaning and purpose that is linked to our true nature? A LIFE OF DEEP HAPPINESS. Alter egos to promote freedom to say what you need to say (hehe!) Ego eradicator - (what's one more humbling experience?!) Playing with fire (physical and emotional pros and cons) Developing witness, discernment, and technique for getting into body (about parasympathetic and sympathetic) What is a life of deep happiness for you, your nature? Yoga Sutra 1.34 Breaking Patterns Using body as bridge - Out of ignorance into "clear perception" Story of Banana Tree - About the nature of the Ego 5 Things to watch out for - this is the game, excited for their arrival so one can do the work of re-alignment - breaking patterns Kindness - a poem from Naomi Shihab Nye A guided Relaxation Gayatri Mantra